Wurst Storm Rising

Rising hazard of storm-surge flooding.

The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season is one for the history books. It has blown a number of records out of the water. Harvey dumped more rain on the United States than any previous hurricane. Irma maintained the highest category 5 longer than any storm anywhere in the world. September 2017 has accumulated themost cyclone energy of any month on record in the Atlantic. Last, but not least, if early...

Will a 'perfect storm' help control rising orthopedic implant costs?

Meeting the Challenges of the Rising Signaling Storm

Distributed signaling network robustness that follows the concept of three protection lines provides operators with a robust and scalable network architecture beyond the capabilities of existing overload protection mechanisms at node level. Applying this concept enables mobile networks to handle the growth in signaling without unnecessary over-dimensioning, and ensures service delivery to consu...

Rising Star

W hat a great stroke of luck this winter for the National Basketball Association (NBA). After the walkout of 2011 that featured multimillionaires arguing with billionaires over their fair share of the league revenues, when most sports fans could not be coaxed away for the National Football League playoff games and the National Hockey League, enter phenom Jeremy Lin to save the face of the NBA. ...

Rising Twenty

In this book Miss Jephcott, author of Girls Growing Up, gives us a picture of 100 ordinary working-class girls in three very different parts of England. The one thing they have in common is that at the time of the study they were all over 17 and under 21. From the girls themselves the author has learned about the interests and thoughts of adolescents between the ages of 14 and 20, and the resul...